Roberto Bolaño: Frases en inglés
Roberto Bolaño era escritor y poeta chileno. Frases en inglés.Roberto Bolaño: 214 citas119 Me gusta
“In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats”
Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes
Fuente: The Savage Detectives
"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" (The New Yorker,December 22, 2008)
Contexto: Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like that for all young writers. There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand; publication, prizes, and grants are reserved for the others, the ones who said “Yes, sir,” over and over, or those who praised the literary mandarins, a never-ending horde distinguished only by their aptitude for discipline and punishment — nothing escapes them and they forgive nothing.
Roberto Bolaño libro La pista de hielo
Fuente: The Skating Rink
Entre Paréntesis (2004) edited by Ignacio Echevarría, p. 223
“The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.”
Roberto Bolaño libro Llamadas telefónicas
Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
Contexto: One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.
"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" (The New Yorker,December 22, 2008)
Contexto: Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like that for all young writers. There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand; publication, prizes, and grants are reserved for the others, the ones who said “Yes, sir,” over and over, or those who praised the literary mandarins, a never-ending horde distinguished only by their aptitude for discipline and punishment — nothing escapes them and they forgive nothing.
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Roberto Bolaño libro El gaucho insufrible
Fuente: The Insufferable Gaucho
Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes
Fuente: The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño libro Llamadas telefónicas
Dentist
Fuente: Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
“we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.”
Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes
Fuente: The Savage Detectives
“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”
Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes
Fuente: The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes
Fuente: The Savage Detectives
“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”
Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes
Fuente: The Savage Detectives